Twenty people attended a short rally with speakers outside of the Illinois Commerce Commission offices Wednesday to oppose a request by Energy Transfer Partners to add three pumping stations along the Dakota Access and ETCO pipeline routes, doubling the capacity of oil flow. After the rally opponents sat in on a pretrial meeting at the Illinois Commerce Commission in which opponents announced their intention to intervene to stop the upgrade to the pipelines.  Speakers at the rally included Rachel Elfant of Save Our Illinois Lands, Joe Phillips of Extinction Rebellion Chicago and Angie Viands of Rising Tide Chicago. All three speakers addressed the grave environmental and social impacts of burning even more fossil fuels as we are currently experiencing negative climate change impacts. The pumping stations would increase capacity of oil flow from 570,000 barrels to 1,100, 000 barrels. According to Oil Change International, this is the equivalent of 30 new coal plants.  Dakota Access Pipeline construction sparked nationwide protests and a large encampment at Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota in 2016 and 2017.  According to the pretrial hearing, the pumping stations could be approved or denied by early October 2019.